Open Discussion: DPS Qeue fix ideas

[AlphaFox]

No i am fairly certain they stated with absolute no 3rd job like they had done with Nin so we most likely have to wait until 5.0 for a tank and healer, that is if they are not stupid about it and go with more dps again... :/

Just to share.

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Morgan: This time there will only be two jobs. Is there any chance for a new job for the 4.x patches?

Yoshida: Currently there are no plans for a third job. Of course, there are a lot of people, myself included who are looking forward to new jobs. Creating an unbalanced job or ruining existing balance is something we don’t wanna do. We’ll revamp the system in 4.0, balance it, then maybe we’ll make another job.

So we do have hope and I would assume healer or tank, but for all we know it could also be a new crafter or gatherer.

[GenericMagus]

This may be anecdotal evidence at best, but I found that when the Cracked Clusters were displayed in Levelling Roulette, the queue times for DPS became much faster (even displaying Healer in Need at one point). Most dungeons took like 10 minutes max as a DPS after that, but soon went back up.

This is on Chaos btw, and even now, the maximum I had to wait for a SB dungeon is 20 minutes, and Leveling roulette 10 minutes max, and that was recently. As such, I feel the best way to get people to tank/healer is to make it worth more to play and far better rewards than DPS to make it appealing.

[Waliel]

(even displaying Healer in Need at one point)

The healer in need happens quite a few times in the first couple of hours after reset from what I've seen on Chaos.

[Yeol]

When you queue as Tank or Healer solo for dungeons, then you will understand why people prefer to go as DPs.

There is a very high chance that you will run into DPs that don't have AoE skills on their hot bars and mobs taking centuries to die. Aka making the life of tanks and healers hell for 20~30 minutes.

[Dortharl]

The only reason I ever do roulette is for guaranteed clusters, I can get tome stones from hunts and PVP both of which are more interesting than running the same dungeons over and over.

(you get clusters from Hunts as well but sometimes Roulette is more consistent)

[KarstenS]

It occurred to me the other day if DPS wait times are unreasonable compared to other roles ,then SE need only increase the number per party and retouch max hp defense numbers to compensate. I wouldn't expect such a large retooling before the next expansion drop though. Anyone else have any thoughts on making the DPS timers better for our fellow gamers?

Easy solution: Queue up as tank or healer.

It fixes your queue and the queue for others too. Win-win.

[Faeon]

When you queue as Tank or Healer solo for dungeons, then you will understand why people prefer to go as DPs.

The above statement is true. Sometimes I am just not in the mood to tank and players in DF can be very toxic, and then come here and complain about DPS queue time. make a tank or healer, or if you are up to it do pvp etc.

[LunaFaye]

There's nothing wrong with the dps queue's. Maybe it's an issue on your data center but hey we can't all get instant queue's 24/7. People knew that when playing a dps, that the time will be longer than 1 second, we don't need now to go and "fix" the dps queue's, since there's nothing to fix.

[GenericMagus]

There's nothing wrong with the dps queue's. Maybe it's an issue on your data center but hey we can't all get instant queue's 24/7. People knew that when playing a dps, that the time will be longer than 1 second, we don't need now to go and "fix" the dps queue's, since there's nothing to fix.

True, but DPS also makes up the majority of the population, all paying subs, so its best to try and get them to stick around and try and help alleviate the DPS queue times so they can do more content. Does this sound a bit unfair on Tanks and Healers? Yes, but that's why there's incentives in the first place to compensate them for doing it.

[Faeon]

True, but DPS also makes up the majority of the population, all paying subs, so its best to try and get them to stick around and try and help alleviate the DPS queue times so they can do more content. Does this sound a bit unfair on Tanks and Healers? Yes, but that's why there's incentives in the first place to compensate them for doing it.

No matter what you do there is noway to correct the issue, incentives only get you so far. there are more dps players than the rest so it will be this way forever and ever, on some data centers its not so bad 10-15 minutes maybe?, but to some people that is too long. For the players asking SE to fix, how do they fix this? this is a people driven issue, nothing SE can do will make people queue up more or increase the numbers.